On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 11:44:32AM -0700, nitin panjwani wrote: > Hi All, > > I have three Linux boxes running RH7.2 and each one of > these has two 3com Ethernet NICs. I am trying to do > some routing stuff with these. > > Ethernet interfaces on these boxes shut down by its > own if I do not pass the packet through them for a > while. I am not able to understand why is it > happening. I think you are running some kind of router daemon like routed, gated or Zebra. Just turn it off. > One more thing when I use ?ip addr show? it shows that > interface is there , but ifconfig doesn?t. I guess > that is because ifconfig shows only the interfaces > that are up. ifconfig -a will show it. Regards, bert -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Versatile DNS Software & Services http://www.tk the dot in .tk http://lartc.org Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/